Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer
Here are our top 10 reasons why outsourcing fails. The rich and long history of outsourcing—now around 200 years if you consider outsourcing for agriculture, manufacturing, accounting, and now medical opinion—has evolved to be a more complex process over the years. Today’s outsourcing is for tasks that are mission-critical for enterprises worldwide. These include outsourcing …
Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer
If you’ve been able to resist outsourcing while the world around you is doing it, that’s great. However, there are many great reasons to outsource. It might be a good idea to start looking at the outsourcing option if you’re seeing one or more of the following happening in your company. Here are the top …
Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer
Do you know the key to IT transformation? When a practicing physician and a Ph.D. in biochemistry/molecular genetics decided to co-found a new company, it wouldn’t be amiss to expect that it would operate in the healthcare industry. Jamison Feramisco, as co-founder of a secure web and mobile application that enabled remote diagnosis of dermatology …
Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer
The healthcare industry may have been cautious to a fault until recently, but it is readily embracing new technologies including the cloud to serve customers better. Welcome to the era of cloud robotics. Recently, articles have popped up highlighting how robots will help with procedures connected to hair transplants. While helping people look good is …
Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer
Those who thought cloud computing was just a passing fad are learning that it is made of more solid stuff. That said, severe competition could still rip a large hole through some clouds. Read on for some pointers to stay afloat. Even as we talk, the two companies that dwarf all other cloud providers, Amazon …
Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer
BYOD vs CYOD: that is the discussion. Why do people want to bring their own device to work? There are two main reasons. First, employees, especially the new millennials, are more comfortable with their own mobile devices. They have never lived without them. Secondly, company hardware is, well, clunky, outdated and difficult to use—what we …
Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer
Markets are becoming interconnected. Cloud, virtualization, mobility and social media are changing how people work and interact. These technologies are transforming how goods and services are created and distributed. They are restructuring how manufacturers price their products, what they choose to produce and what they invest in. But the most significant change has become apparent …
Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer
Everyone loves hybrid models. Who doesn’t want the best of both worlds? IT organizations everywhere crave “a little bit of this and a little bit of that” approach to spread their risk. They want to keep control over infrastructure, business critical apps, data and processes that help preserve IP or enable a competitive edge while …
Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer
In late September, high-profile cloud storage start up Nirvanix told its customers to stop replicating data on its servers and migrate to other providers like Microsoft Azure, IBM SoftLayer and Amazon S3. For several reasons, Nirvanix, sitting on a tidy $70 million in funding, was shutting down . Users had until October 15 to download …
Outsourcing Center, Karthik Nagendra, Business Writer
For centuries, banks have built their business models on the foundation of customer confidentiality. Secrecy and security are by-words in the world of banking. How can they be expected to embrace social media, a platform where things appear to be “open” and “public”? There is much for banks and financial institutions to worry about when …
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